LEB(i)
1 Then* Job answered and said,
2 "⌊How long⌋* will you* torment me* and crush me with words?
3 These ten times you* have disgraced me; you* are not ashamed that you* have attacked* me.
4 And what is more, if I have truly erred, my error remains with me.
5 If indeed you* must magnify yourselves against me, and you* must let my disgrace argue against me,
6 know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me with his net.
7 "Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but* I am not answered; I cry out, but* there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that* I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of* my head.
10 He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,
11 and he has kindled his wrath against me, and ⌊he has counted me as one of his foes⌋.*
12 His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart* against me and have encamped around my tent.
13 "He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only* turned aside from me.
14 My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 The sojourners in* my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but* he does not answer; I must ⌊personally⌋* plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to ⌊my own family⌋.*
18 Little boys also despise me; when I rise, then* they talk against me.
19 All ⌊my intimate friends⌋* abhor me, and these whom I have loved have turned against me.
20 My bones* cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 "Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.
22 Why do you* pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 "⌊O that⌋* my words could be written down! ⌊O that they could be inscribed in a scroll⌋!*
24 That with a pen of iron and with lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!
25 But* I myself* know that my redeemer is alive, and at the last he will stand up upon ⌊the earth⌋.*
26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but* from* my flesh I will see God,
27 whom ⌊I will see for myself⌋,* and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.* ⌊My heart faints within me⌋.*
28 "If you* say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,*
29 be afraid for yourselves ⌊because of the sword⌋,* for wrath brings punishment by* the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment."